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In our area we have a large local Agile user group and have had to create several subgroups and events to support our many members. One such recurring event is the new Lean Beer event. I would like to share how we run our it so that it will be easier for others to run similar events.

I worked with an awesome development team that had an Agile training budget of zero and a time allowance during business hours for a two-day deep dive. Therefore I put together the following schedule from hours and hours of YouTube viewing, which I hope might help you as well.

Each of my children uses Agile principles and practices in different ways to accomplish his or her goals. To have my children do this, this early in their lives, gives me great satisfaction because they are learning how to make their lives simpler and more efficient.

Whether you are using Scrum or another software delivery method, it is highly likely that you will be working as a group in order to achieve your goals -- you will, in fact, be team workers. What are the necessary traits?

How can we make sprint retrospectives more effective? It takes time to create stable teams, but retrospectives play a major role in shaping the team and in making Scrum the right fit for an organization.

Over the years, I've found that one of the biggest hurdles in getting (and keeping) a team to think in an Agile Scrum manner is the fact that the ScrumMaster is not the boss. As with many things in life, this is easy to say and more difficult to practice.